Fig. 1.
Biological pathways that reduce nitrate include dissimilative nitrate reduction to nitrite (DNRN), to gaseous N species like NO, N2O and N2 (denitrification) and to ammonium (DNRA). Each of these pathways requires specific reductase enzymes
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